Cremohipparion

Cremohipparion Temporal range: Mid Miocene to Pliocene, 23–3.6 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
C. mediterraneumskull
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Perissodactyla
Family:	Equidae
Genus:	Cremohipparion Qiu et al. 1987
Species
C. antelopinum C. forstenae C. matthewi C. mediterraneum

Cremohipparion is an extinct genus of horse living in Eurasia and Africa during the Miocene through Pliocene.

Its habitat or biome consisted of non-forested, grassy plains, shortgrass prairie or steppes.

Taxonomy

Cremohipparion was originally coined as a subgenus of Hipparion for a number of Eurasian species traditionally referred to Hipparion.^[1] Later, Bernor and Tobien (1989) elevated Cremohipparion to full generic status in their description of small hipparionin specimens from Samos, Greece.^[2]

References

1. QIU, Z., HUANG. W. AND GUO, Z., 1987. The Chinese hipparionine fossils (In Chinese, with an English summary). Paleontol. Sin., N.S., C.25: 1-243.
2. Bernor R.L.; Tobien H., 1989: Two small species of cremohipparion equidae mammalia from samos greece. Mitteilungen Der Bayerischen Staatssammlung Fuer Palaeontologie Und Historische Geologie.(29): 207-226